OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was recently named TIME’s 2023 “CEO of the Year.” In an interview with the magazine, he described how our lives will be changed with the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI): 

“If we can make abundant intelligence for the world, and if we can create abundant energy, then our ability to have amazing ideas for our children to teach themselves more than ever before, for people to be more productive, to offer better healthcare, to uplift the economy, and to actually put those things into action with energy, I think those are to two massive, massive things. 

“Now they come with downsides. And so it's on us to figure out how to make this safe and how to responsibly put this in the hands of people. But I think we see a path now where the world gets much more abundant and much better every year, and people have the ability to do way, way more than we can possibly imagine today…

“…And by the time the end of this decade rolls around, I think the world is going to be in an unbelievably better place. It sounds sort of like silly and sci-fi optimism to say this, but if you think about how different the world can be, not only when every person has, today they have ChatGPT, it's not very good, but next they have the world's best chief of staff. And then after that, every person has a company of 20 or 50 experts that can work super well together. And then after that, everybody has a company of 10,000 experts in every field that can work super well together. And if someone wants to go focus on curing disease, they can do that. And if someone wants to focus on making great art, they can do that. But if you think about the cost of intelligence and the quality of intelligence, the cost falling, the quality increasing by a lot and what people can do with that, it's like a very different world. It's the world that sci-fi has promised us for a long time and for the first time, I think we get to start to see what that's going to look like.”

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Republished by Peter Diamandis